Rechtin on Ultraquality - Ultraquality Waterfalls
'Lean Enterprise'
Excerpted from Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, Eberhardt Rechtin, Prentice Hall, 1991.
ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE I: ULTRAQUALITY WATERFALLS
Process architecture is usually thought of in the context of a manufacturing system - machines, layout, procedures, product mix, flexibility, and the like. But, . . .
Rechtin on Ultraquality - Tying Quality to Cost
Reducing Cost is a Driver for Improving Quality
Excerpted from Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, Eberhardt Rechtin, Prentice Hall, 1991.
MANAGERIAL RESPONSE II: TYING QUALITY TO COST
One of the most important effects of greatly increased global competition has been the simultaneous increase in quality and decrease in cost of commercially . . .
Rechtin on Ultraquality - Technological Substitution
The semiconductor (and software!) revolution
Excerpted from Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, Eberhardt Rechtin, Prentice Hall, 1991.
TECHNOLOGICAL RESPONSE I: TECHNOLOGICAL SUBSTITUTION
One of the most dramatic improvements in component quality has been the inon of many circuits onto a single microelectronic chip, replacing thousands of . . .
Rechtin on Ultraquality - Zero Defects and Progressive Redesign
Eberhardt Rechtin on Systems Architecting
Another excerpt, below, from Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, Eberhardt Rechtin, Prentice Hall, 1991. What's interesting to the modern reader (who may be most interested in software design) is that the application of Lean manufacturing ideas to software isn't new; the approach was at the root of . . .
Eberhardt Rechtin on the Challenge of Ultraquality
The Writings of a Systems Architecture Legend
In his classic (but criminally overlooked) 1991 book "Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems," Eberhardt Rechtin discusses technical, managerial and architectural responses to the challenge of building ultraquality systems - systems that are of such high quality that they are impractical to certify by . . .
IEEE Oral Histories - Eberhardt Rechtin
Much legacy content served by Google (esp. early NASA and IEEE content) runs through to dead links :-( however, the Engineering and Technology History Wiki contains an incredible list of Oral Histories and you can read the full transcript of an interview with Eberhardt Rechtin (conducted in 1995 by Frederik Nebeker) at . . .
Rechtin on Ultraquality - The Challenge
Excellence Beyond Measure and the need for Ultraquality Systems
Continuing the complex systems architecture theme and discussion of ultra-quality systems, the excerpt below is taken from Eberhardt Rechtin, Systems Architecting, Creating and Building Complex Systems, 1991, Chap 8.
Several issues spring to mind today, particularly how the need for some ultra-quality systems continues to be driven . . .